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Have you been anxiously awaiting pet battle news since BlizzCon's unveil?

Well, wait no more. After going through our database, we've compiled a huge overview about pet battles. There are several classes of pets with their own abilities which we also datamined: Beast, Critter, Dragon, Elemental, Flying, Humanoid, Mystical/Magical, Mechanical, Undead, and Water.

We also went in game and tracked down all the current wild pets that are in the game with help from Warcraft Pets. In short, every zone in the Eastern Kingdoms has its own unique pets--there are even named ones and ones that only spawn under certain conditions. No other continent has any, but it's likely they will be added in future beta patches.

UPDATE: The patch from 4/10/2012 has removed these pet battle spells from the game, it is likely they will be changed again. Sorry for the broken links!

Wild Pets Preview

Overview

While you will still be able use your regular pets that you already own, Mists of Pandaria introduces new random spawns across the world known as wild pets to add to your collection.

Zones have unique wild pet spawns that are zone specific--for example, a Dusk Spiderling is unique to Duskwood. Similarly, a Tiny Harvester can only be found in the farm fields of Westfall!

Every zone also has more common ones that you can catch in multiple zones. You can find tons of Rats everywhere, for example.

There are also extremely rare wild pets specific to zones, such as a named parrot called Polly in Stranglethorn Vale. These can also have conditionals applied to them: outside of Karazhan, a ghost called Restless Shadeling spawns only in the early morning.

Pet Abilities and Classes

Overview

These are the following pet battle classes: Beast, Critter, Dragon, Elemental, Flying, Humanoid, Mystical, Mechanical, Undead, and Water. We discovered some pet battle icons a few days back, and their names match up pretty well with the datamined pets and abilities.

We found abilities for most of the pet battle classes, as well as some companion pets. These include the following: Beast: Powerful melee attacks--some of which stun the target or increase physical damage taken, like .

Critter: Sly-themed attacks like , which deals damage based on the number of enemy buffs.

Dragon: Fiery single-target and AoE damage-dealing spells like .

Flying: Many attacks are tied to critical strike chance, like , or spread out over several turns.

Mechanical: Tech-themed abilities that have powerful, but unreliable, lingering effects like .

Water: These pets can cast magical spells like , but they are also the only class that can heal so far, with abilities like .

Several abilities are affected by the game's order: does more damage if you go second, while does more damage if you go first.Other abilities are spread out over several turns: poisons the enemy for three turns, while causes double damage on the next attack.Each pet class has strengths and vulnerabilities. For example, Dragon attacks deal additional damage to Flying companions, but less damage to Water and enemy Dragon companions.We also found some Pet Battle Commands--showing that you can swap pets in combat and notify players of their turns.

Beast

Beast attacks deal bonus damage to Critter companions and less damage to Humanoid and Flying companions.

Comentario de Chilela

Comentario de AkimboYojimbo

Soooo, do all of these behave as standard non-combat pets as well? Will my engineer be tailed by a tiny harvester while I'm burning down mobs?

Comentario de Ashelia

on 2012-03-27T18:39:58-05:00

Soooo, do all of these behave as standard non-combat pets as well? Will my engineer be tailed by a tiny harvester while I'm burning down mobs?

At the moment you can't do anything with them--since this is practically an alpha, it just breaks.

However, it looks like yes, they will become combat pets once you catch them.

Comentario de m00h

on 2012-03-27T18:40:10-05:00

Meh,if any of these attacks were licensed by Ninty, I have yet to find 6 differences in some of the attacks ^^ none the less, I love this.

Comentario de Leviatharan

on 2012-03-27T18:40:12-05:00

Hmm. So a pet like Carámbano would be sorted as something like Dragon/Undead or something, right? (Assuming you're allowed two types, but it'd be hard to imagine a Phoenix Hatchling as just Flying rather than Flying/Elemental...)Would be interesting to see him casting Pyroclasm and Flamethrower... heheh...

But I'm still left with questions as to the sorting. The Lasher sorted as 'Mythical' would do just as well under 'Elemental', wouldn't it? And what about 'item' pets like Balloons, Kites and Lanterns?

Comentario de Vaultnishi

on 2012-03-27T18:45:38-05:00

So are we going to be able to transfer any of our current companion pets? I know they mentioned a bit ago, but i haven't seen a confirmation yet and was curious if anyone knew.

Comentario de Koloma

on 2012-03-27T18:58:38-05:00

So...many....new pets.

It's almost sad how excited I am about this feature. I never thought I wanted Pokemon in my WoW, but once they announced it at Blizzcon, I was just like "Well that sounds fun." Now with all this new info it's more "OMG this is going to be the best thing ever!"

Comentario de Wasselin

on 2012-03-27T18:58:48-05:00

I can't wait for more information. I still want to know exactly how the whole thing is going to work.

Comentario de Thommas

on 2012-03-27T19:03:34-05:00

Sooo... does my Spirit of Competition count for anything in this?

Comentario de Whitecell

on 2012-03-27T19:07:01-05:00

Loving this idea finally something I can do with the mounting heaps of vanity pets I have... all pets will be able to fight? If it is not already to late to ask for can our high lvl or most evolved vanity pets give the owner a buff when they are out and active? Heck even if it cosmetic or were talking 1-3% increase on stats or abilities I'd be happy.

More Food for Thought from ---Whitey

Actually inclosing thoughts I would very much like to see pets become completely BOA as far as pets that can't be claimed by newer toons like the spirit of competition and onxyia's whelping!

I would love to have them on my new panadas!

Comentario de Skozzem

on 2012-03-27T19:20:19-05:00

At first glance, water-type seems good. It resists three types, with none being super-effective against it. In addition, it gets a heal. Capture a water-based pet with bulky defenses, and just chip away.